Early Modern Disputations and Dissertations in an Interdisciplinary and European Context

Meelis Friedenthal, Ph.D. (2008, Tartu) is Senior Research Fellow in Intellectual History at the University of Tartu. He has published edited volumes and articles on early modern book history, theology and philosophy. Hanspeter Marti, Dr. phil. (1980, Basel) is head of the Arbeitsstelle für kulturwissenschaftliche Forschungen in Engi/Switzerland. He has published monographs, edited volumes and articles on early modern cultural history. His research focuses on the history of disputations.Robert Seidel, Dr. phil. (1994, Heidelberg) is Professor of German literature at the Goethe-University, Frankfort on the Main. He has published books and articles on German and Latin literature of the early modern period as well as critical editions of several Neo-Latin authors.

• List of Figures, Graphs and TablesNotes on the EditorsNotes on the Contributors1 IntroductionMeelis Friedenthal, Hanspeter Marti and Robert Seidel2 Burden of Proof in Post-Medieval Disputation: Early Leibniz and Disputation HandbooksDonald Felipe3 Formen und Funktionen des Thesenblattes: Programm, Plakat und MemorialbildSibylle Appuhn-Radtkepart 1: Britain4 In Search of the Truth: Mid-Sixteenth Century Disputations on the Eucharist in EnglandLucy R. Nicholas5 Disputations at Seventeenth-Century OxfordTommi Alho6 Singing the Study of Sound: Literary Engagement with Natural Philosophy in the Act and Tripos Verses of Oxford and CambridgeWilliam M. Bartonpart 2: France7 Printed Theses in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century FranceLaurence Brockliss8 Un même portrait pour deux thèses dédiées à Marie LeczinskaVéronique Meyerpart 3: Germany, Austria and Switzerland9 The Disputational Culture of Renaissance Astronomy: Johannes Regiomontanus’s “An Terra Moveatur An Quiescat”Alberto Bardi and Pietro Daniel Omodeo10 Surgical Disputations in Basel at around 1600Ulrich Schlegelmilch11 The Scientific Revolution in MarburgSabine Schlegelmilch12 On the Early Reception of John Brown’s Medical Theory on the Example of Doctoral Dissertations Defended in Jena in 1794–1795Arvo Tering13 Learned Artisans and Merchants in Early Eighteenth-Century Latin DissertationsSari Kivistö14 David Pareus’s Collected Disputations as a Theological Commonplace Book: Disputation as a Medium of Basic Dogmatics and Religious ControversyGábor Förköli15 The Good Arts, the Bad Arts, and Nature According to Georg Stengel (1584–1651)Joseph S. Freedman16 Progress or Conservatism? Eighteenth-Century Disputations and Dissertations at the University of Innsbruck between (Catholic) Enlightenment and JosephinismIsabella Walser-Bürgler17 Bismi ’llāhi … Three Dissertations by Johann Michael Lange on Editions and Translations of the KoranReinhold F. Glei18 Being Entitled to Dispute: On Disputations in Duisburg in the Second Half of the 17th CenturyJan-Hendryk de Boer19 Forms of Disputation and Didactics: Examples from Philosophy Lessons at Westphalian Grammar Schools in the 17th and Early 18th CenturyStephanie Hellekamps and Hans-Ulrich Musolff20 Tradition, Synthesis, and Innovation: An Early Eighteenth-Century Dissertation on Dialects Presented in WittenbergRaf Van Rooy21 The Programma in Relation to Disputations/Dissertations at the Faculty of Law of Leipzig University around 1750Annamaria Lesigang-Bruckmüller22 Who Needs Albertina Dissertations in Russia? Königsberg Dissertations from the Early Modern Age in the Russian State Library (Moscow)Daria Barow-Vassilevitch 23 Form, Function and Publication of the Zurich Dissertations before the Founding of the University (1833)Urs B. Leupart 4: Scandinavia and the Baltics24 Ramism, Metaphysics and Pneumatology in the Swedish Universities of the First Half of the 17th CenturyMeelis Friedenthal25 Corollaries and DissertationsBo Lindberg26 Dedicatory Practices in Early Uppsala DissertationsPeter Sjökvist27 Disputing and Writing Dissertations in Greek: Petrus Aurivillius’ Περὶ τῆς ἀρετῆς (Uppsala, 1658)Tua Korhonen28 Greek Disputations in German and Swedish Universities and Academic Gymnasia in the 17th and Early 18th CenturyJanika Päll29 Translation in University Dissertations: A Study of Swedish (and Finnish) Dissertations of the 19th Century and EarlierJohanna Akujärvi30 Johann Brever and Herodotus’ Histories in the Disputations of the Riga Academic GymnasiumKaarina Rein31 ‘Monstrum Rationis Status’: Reason of State as Radical Philosophy at Uppsala University 1743–1747Andreas Hellerstedt32 Atlantic Uppsala: Paganism and Old Norse Literature in Swedish University DisputationsBernd Roling33 Disputations and Dissertations in the Early Modern Swedish GymnasiumAxel HörstedtIndex Nominum

“The text on the cover text of this collection of nearly a thousand pages explains that “from the 16th through the 18th century, printed disputations were the main academic output of universities.” The three editors confirm this claim with thirty-two case studies by different authors, investigating the topic of early modern printed disputations.” “Research on disputations, occupying as it does a somewhat marginal place in historical scholarship, is rendered more accessible to a wider audience through the use of English especially because of the book’s concentration on some more peripheral regions of Europe. This should be applauded.”“ One can only hope that this avenue of research will be continued because there is still so much to discover, which, thanks to the progressing digitization of the sources, is now much easier.” Christoph Sander, Bibliotheca Hertziana, in Journal of Jesuit Studies, 8.